Floyd Mayweather is promoting a new cryptocurrency: 'You can call me Floyd Crypto Mayweather'
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The undefeated boxing champion took to Twitter Wednesday to promote another initial coin offering, the red-hot cryptocurrency-based fundraising method.
In July, Mayweather promoted the ICO of Stox.com, a blockchain prediction company. This time, he is supporting Hubii Network, a media tech company.
According to a tweet, Mayweather is also looking to go by a new nickname: "Floyd Crypto Mayweather."
Hubii, a content distribution company with 50 million customers, is looking to raise $50 million through an Ethereum-based initial coin offering, according to a press representative for the firm. The ICO will not be open to US investors.
Initial coin offerings are a new funding vehicle using blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin. The market for so-called ICOs is exploding, with over $1.86 billion raised via the method since the beginning of the year, according to data from Autonomous NEXT, a financial technology analytics provider. The massive growth of the ICO market has many people in the space thinking it's a bubble, with many firms using the method as a way to raise vasts amount of money without offering an actual product.
To raise money through an ICO, a company issues a new digital currency that can either be spent within its ecosystem, a bit like Disneyland dollars, or used to power part of the business.
Recently they've come under the scrutiny of the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, more and more companies running ICOs have limited participation to non-US investors. But that hasn't stopped some American investors from getting in on the ICO action, according to Josh Olszewicz, a bitcoin insider and investor.
"There are ways to work around this by essentially setting up your Ethereum address in another country," he told Business Insider during a visit to New York.
According to Olszwics, it's not that difficult to do.
We're building the marketplace for all content: news, music, film, sports! Glad you're in @FloydMayweather https://t.co/kQoyCeMgAX #ICO pic.twitter.com/zuoKSh0lyu
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